CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-35592

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2026-04-07 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-04-07
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-22

Description

pyLoad is a free and open-source download manager written in Python. Prior to 0.5.0b3.dev97, the _safe_extractall() function in src/pyload/plugins/extractors/UnTar.py uses os.path.commonprefix() for its path traversal check, which performs character-level string comparison rather than path-level comparison. This allows a specially crafted tar archive to write files outside the intended extraction directory. The correct function os.path.commonpath() was added to the codebase in the CVE-2026-32808 fix (commit 5f4f0fa) but was never applied to _safe_extractall(), making this an incomplete fix. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.5.0b3.dev97.

Affected configurations

• pyload-ng project pyload-ng (<= 0.5.0b3.dev96)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

References